In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
WILL DURANTThere is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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